# Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1176 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1177 --- ## [It's 11:30AM and my drunk brother just crawled up the stairs.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-11-30am-and-my-drunk-brother-just-crawled-up-the-stairs/611002)
**Author:** [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-11-30am-and-my-drunk-brother-just-crawled-up-the-stairs/611002 "2012-01-31T19:57:52Z")
I work the graveyard shift and I get home this morning around 10AM. Papers are littered on the snow covered front porch. I know my brother’s been drinking again because he checks the mail on the way in and drops it bef… --- ## [Take A Look: Photoshopped?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-look-photoshopped/611326)
**Author:** [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-a-look-photoshopped/611326 "2012-01-31T19:53:12Z")
Found it on my FB page… Q --- ## [Don't Know Why I Find This Site So Funny, But I Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-why-i-find-this-site-so-funny-but-i-do/611253)
**Author:** [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-know-why-i-find-this-site-so-funny-but-i-do/611253 "2012-01-31T18:09:53Z")
--- ## [Julian Assange now working for the Kremlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-now-working-for-the-kremlin/610680)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/julian-assange-now-working-for-the-kremlin/610680 "2012-01-31T17:43:51Z")
Julian Assange, advocate for information transparency, will be working for the Kremlin, killer of journalists. He will be hosting a talk show on RT, the international channel backed by the Russian government. --- ## [Fun with poor pronunciation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-poor-pronunciation/611004)
**Author:** [@Uber\_the\_Goober](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uber_the_Goober)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-poor-pronunciation/611004 "2012-01-31T17:37:41Z")
He totally missed the incest on the ground and tripped, spunt around, and swolled up his ankle. Them goochy (Gucci??) gizmos on his phone coont save him from that! :stuck\_out\_tongue: That’s a sentence I have actually … --- ## [Cats, and things technical](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-and-things-technical/611197)
**Author:** [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cats-and-things-technical/611197 "2012-01-31T06:07:18Z")
I installed a generic memory-card reader salvaged from a friend’s malfunctioning computer and tested it with the one memory card I had lying around; a 32 MB Sony memory stick. It’s obsolete now - I don’t and have never … --- ## [What a horrible thing to do to your mom.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-horrible-thing-to-do-to-your-mom/611135)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-horrible-thing-to-do-to-your-mom/611135 "2012-01-31T03:50:22Z")
Teen Girl jumps out of car as her mom is driving down the highway. As a parent I can easily imagine the hell the mom is going through. That poor lady will relive that moment for the rest of her life. I guess the teen wan… --- ## [World's Top Ten Most Weirdly Exclusive Clubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-top-ten-most-weirdly-exclusive-clubs/611045)
**Author:** [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-top-ten-most-weirdly-exclusive-clubs/611045 "2012-01-31T03:08:29Z")
Happened to run across this list of the world’s top 10 most weirdly exclusive clubs. Some I had heard of, others not - but thought it was interesting enough to share. Note that the content is certainly tame, some of th… --- ## [¿uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʞıן ʞooן ɥsıןbuǝ sǝop ʇɐɥʍ](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-op-pisdn-i-oo-si-bu-s-op/611044)
**Author:** [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/u-op-pisdn-i-oo-si-bu-s-op/611044 "2012-01-30T23:47:51Z")
˙sıɥʇ ǝʞıן buıɥʇǝɯos ǝןʇʇıן ɐ sʞooן ʇı ˙ǝɹǝɥbuıʞɔıןɔ ʎq uʍop ǝpısdn ʎןdǝɹ ǝsɐǝןd --- ## [Horrible treatment from a 5 star hotel](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-treatment-from-a-5-star-hotel/611018)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 49\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horrible-treatment-from-a-5-star-hotel/611018 "2012-01-30T23:31:14Z")
I had a complaint about the cost of a high end hotel I stayed at. Via email I requested a partial refund. They denied that so I asked to speak to the manager. The manager called me up and gave me the refund and … --- ## [Teen Thugs take on the wrong 65 year old man.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-thugs-take-on-the-wrong-65-year-old-man/610736)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 87\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-thugs-take-on-the-wrong-65-year-old-man/610736 "2012-01-30T23:07:46Z")
Crime is really getting bad when its not even safe to ride a bicycle on a trail. :dubious: Three teen punks ambush a bicycle rider and got him to the ground. I’m assuming they would have beaten him senseless or maybe ki… --- ## [Too Mild for the Pit: I hate Resumes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-mild-for-the-pit-i-hate-resumes/611170)
**Author:** [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-mild-for-the-pit-i-hate-resumes/611170 "2012-01-30T21:12:48Z")
(also, I put this here because I don’t really want to get jumped on so much?) I hate resumes. Hate. White-knuckled, hands-starting-to-shake, attack-bystanders-with-a-razor-blade hate. No, I don’t mean the things you … --- ## [Who doesn't like knives?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-knives/610880)
**Author:** [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-knives/610880 "2012-01-30T20:09:19Z")
This was spawned from a mild disagreement with my wife. We have a birthday party for an adult friend to attend this weekend. We were discussing possible gifts and I suggested a knife. She complained that I always give… --- ## [Meeting a famous person . . . but not knowing it](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-a-famous-person-but-not-knowing-it/610659)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 84\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meeting-a-famous-person-but-not-knowing-it/610659 "2012-01-30T16:36:05Z")
One night in the late 70s, when I was living in NYC, my then-partner took me to Studio 54. He’d been there several times and knew all the regulars. It was my first time there . . . I’m really not into that kind of scene. … --- ## [Cowed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowed/611086)
**Author:** [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowed/611086 "2012-01-30T15:59:53Z")
There’s a stock horse sport called working cow horse, in which a horse and rider face off against a cow in an arena. The object of the game is for the mounted pair to take control of the cow’s immediate destiny, make it … --- ## [Couch to 5K, anyone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couch-to-5k-anyone/599813)
**Author:** [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Replies:** 53\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couch-to-5k-anyone/599813 "2012-01-30T15:07:31Z")
Who else is on this running program, and how are you doing so far? Any tips you’d like to share? I’m on day #3 of the first week, and so far it’s going pretty good! :slight\_smile: The last two running days I’ve been p… --- ## [Committing a faux pas where people's reactions are worse than the original transgression.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/committing-a-faux-pas-where-peoples-reactions-are-worse-than-the-original-transgression/611087)
**Author:** [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/committing-a-faux-pas-where-peoples-reactions-are-worse-than-the-original-transgression/611087 "2012-01-30T05:07:39Z")
A few years ago when I was working retail I worked in a building where the water would occasionally be shut off (with advance warning) for maintenance. On this particular day I was out or something when the water was tu… --- ## [Famous people who DIED the exact day you were born](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119)
**Author:** [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Replies:** 110\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119 "2012-01-30T04:39:39Z")
The evil spawn of this thread. What famous person died on the exact day you were born? (Different years don’t count.) This one’s a lot tougher than the other thread. The only famous person to die on my date of birth wa… --- ## [The On This Day In History MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-on-this-day-in-history-mmp/610385)
**Author:** [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Replies:** 186\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-on-this-day-in-history-mmp/610385 "2012-01-30T04:29:08Z")
I sometimes feel we need to be more cultured and refined here at the MMP. Thus, this week we shall begin with a history lesson just to couth things up a bit. The following monumental, astonishing, amazing and otherwise a… --- ## [\--And how was your day, my friends?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-how-was-your-day-my-friends/609767)
**Author:** [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-how-was-your-day-my-friends/609767 "2012-01-30T01:08:59Z")
Ran across a bit of scrap gold. Went and sold it today, and I got a hundred bucks. Got myself and my roommate some chateaubriand and a really good bottle of Zinfandel. Everyone everywhere is entitled to their own rela… --- ## [Gabby Giffords resigning from Congress](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabby-giffords-resigning-from-congress/610334)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabby-giffords-resigning-from-congress/610334 "2012-01-29T23:27:48Z")
Wow this shakes things up. A special election to fill her seat just 9 months before the regular election? WTF is that about? That’s a lot of wasted money for a special election. A 9 month appointment makes more sense to … --- ## [An unfortunate advertisement from AmEx](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unfortunate-advertisement-from-amex/610623)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-unfortunate-advertisement-from-amex/610623 "2012-01-29T21:02:12Z")
Apparently this ad was green-lighted weeks ago and was too far along to be stopped, but a Washington Post columnist just received an AmEx offer for a discount on a Mediterranean cruise from Costa, with the tagline, “Imme… --- ## [More evidence conspiracy theorists are a special kind of special](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062)
**Author:** [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-evidence-conspiracy-theorists-are-a-special-kind-of-special/611062 "2012-01-29T18:54:11Z")
\[ \](http://m.spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/01/18/1948550611434786) The more I read the internet, the more I am my own grandpa. --- ## [If I were a super-millionaire athlete, this is what I'd do.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-a-super-millionaire-athlete-this-is-what-id-do/611096)
**Author:** [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-were-a-super-millionaire-athlete-this-is-what-id-do/611096 "2012-01-29T17:45:12Z")
Maybe I can be so philanthropic because I’m not dealing with my personal reality, but I like to think I’d do this. Steps in not necessarily logical, chronological order: Establish a foundation to provide for youth sp… --- ## [Any other Wazers out there?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-wazers-out-there/610885)
**Author:** [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-wazers-out-there/610885 "2012-01-29T13:27:07Z")
So I have been using Waze Navigation on my smartphone as opposed to the stock Google Maps Navigation. I wouldn’t say it is better, but for some reason I prefer it, it uses crowdsourcing to create the maps and the routes… --- ## [Weird compliments you've received.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292)
**Author:** [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Replies:** 114\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-compliments-youve-received/610292 "2012-01-29T05:51:45Z")
So the other day, I’m leading our Ladies Room group (it’s like affective ed. for teenage girls) and a student says, “Yeah, this white girl…” and I say, “Hey! There’s a white girl in the room!” Without missing a beat, she… --- ## [My step-nephew is dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-step-nephew-is-dead/610633)
**Author:** [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-step-nephew-is-dead/610633 "2012-01-29T02:31:46Z")
Shot himself in the head last night. Just started high school. My sister’s a wreck and from what I hear, her husband is even worse. They left already, and the rest of us are all trying to figure out how we’re going to… --- ## [It's like the Somalian pirates left out a trail of M&Ms . . .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-the-somalian-pirates-left-out-a-trail-of-m-ms/610882)
**Author:** [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-like-the-somalian-pirates-left-out-a-trail-of-m-ms/610882 "2012-01-29T02:24:37Z")
From today’s L.A. Times: \*sigh \*\* Obviously, I hope the poor mope gets rescued, but I can see the Navy Seals thinking, “really, Michael? Really?” --- ## [Every Presentation Ever - funny video on better communications](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-presentation-ever-funny-video-on-better-communications/610812)
**Author:** [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-presentation-ever-funny-video-on-better-communications/610812 "2012-01-29T02:02:19Z")
--- ## [So...will this be a historical inflection point for Google?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-this-be-a-historical-inflection-point-for-google/610808)
**Author:** [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-will-this-be-a-historical-inflection-point-for-google/610808 "2012-01-28T23:06:17Z")
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/115425-google-is-fubar Googles gonna wire ALLLL your stuf together into one über-profile…including work if your work uses googledocs. I just wonder if I’ll be at work and get an ad… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/miscellaneous-and-personal-stuff-i-must-share/10.md?page=1177)